St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1887-11-26
TONS OF HAiR-PlNS.
The One Instrument which Women Car
Use with Defines aud Assurance.


Use with Defines and Assurance.
..How many hair-pins does a lai,
wear in year." repeated clcrs oil
Woodward avenue with smile. well
that just depends on how many sh'
loses. Many ladies sow their hair-pin!
rs they 90. while others are SO careful
that they use only one box a year
Then. too. it just depends on how man,
daughters one has. We sell hundred:
of pounds a wear -that is of the plain
kinds. We've seen the time when we
could pretty nearly pay our rent out oi
our hair-pin trade, but since these fancy
hair-pins have come into style thai
could not br done. Then. too. this fad
IF shinglng off the back hair makes 4
difference. One can't wear pins. YOU
see. in short hair. and with the hair
drawn up on top one doesn [ need 50
MANY"
I'VE buy our hair-pins. said an
other dealer, "by the hundred-wcight.
and sell a gross day, that is OF English
steel"
bow many do YOU sell at a time.
%. we have any number If Gus.
toners who buy pound at a time. II
lady has family of daughters apound
lasts only a short time
What becomes of them?
''Well, you II have to ask some one
else. That's coaundrum yet 10 be
solved. They slip out of sight most
certainly and in the most unaccOunta-
BILE way
lis there no way Of making them so
they will he secure?'
"A good many ways have been tried.
some think the crimped pin the most
secure The silk pin, French invcn-
ton. which is covered with silk the ex-
act shade of the hair, stays in place
better than the steel pin There is a
wonderful variety of hair-pins. The
gilt, silver. shell. nvisible-all these
come in different sizes, and are light,
smooth and comfortable. Then there
are rubber pins for dark hair and
amber for goldea locks. There are n
great many fancy pins worn. and this
of course takes from the sales of the
common pins.
What hair-pin do you consider the
bestr>
The English we prefer. The French
are good, but the American are ron I'll
and heavy. We never keep the Amer
lean hair-pin. This year we are bring
ing charming fancy pins for the adorn-
ment of the hair. Moon>tOnes are very
popular and so are those of tiligrce
work Of gold. delicate rs cobweb. and
hna -, nd h,pf-
terflie>, i'm the pale gold and alloys of
the gavest tints. The delicate old
fashioned tortoisc-shcll pins. such rs
our grandmothcrs wore i'm high-back
combs. are very fashionable for the
back hair. They are exquisitely thin,
but very frail. and are as difficult to
mend. if broken. As egg-shcll china"
Making tour of the largest Wood
ward avenue stores. il was found that
the sales of hair-pins apprOximated
very closely ut each, averaging sew
eral hundred gross every three or six
months.
AS the womanS mechanical tool,
said male habcrda>hcr, married. by
the way. .'the hair-pin is unrivaled. 1t
is to a woman what a jack knife is to
hoy. and it is the only shart-pointed in
strument that she can manage with
skill. With hammer she pounds her
fingers: with a screw-driver she jabs
her hands, but hair-pin she can twist
and turn i'm all kinds Of feminine fami-
lv uses With hair. pin woman bnt-
tons her gloves and occasionally her
boots. tears open her letters. cut the
pages Of her latest fashion-book or'
magazine, draws out corks, picks otit
nuts, pins up . rip, fastens in the,now-
ers, makes up floral designs. pins
down her eardch.yines, fastens up tho
curtains. unknots sh0s-strihg. ~ '..s
her jewelry, suspends placi', sticks
mp receipts cut with : a news
paper. snuffs can'' loops out her
vaseline ara well. uses it for
any GU of toilet purposes II
thcrn any one article more necessary
to the comfort Of women for family use
than the magic hair-pin it isn't down
in the directory.
''Thcre is luck, too. in hair-pins. |
To find hair-pin is a good omen. es-
pecially ifthe points are turned towards
you. That simple position doubles the
luck. To pass one by without picking
it up turns ones luck. DO you know /
that Just now there is fancy among |
young men for collecting hair-pins. |
and it is said that several Young society |
gentlemen have an assortment, picked |
up in different ways, and which repre- |
sent TO them a great deal of feminine |
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